Whilst fine bore NG tubes are used to manage feeding and/or administration of medication ... The Clinical and Product Assurance team at NHS Supply Chain were asked to review use of the term ‘drainage’ ...

Introduction Nasogastric (NG) tube feeding is an important component of nutritional care. However it has risks and introducing feed or medicines into the respiratory tract through a misplaced NG tube ...

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK Background: Gastrostomy feeding is a well established alternative method to long term nasogastric tube feeding. Many such patients have gastro-oesophageal ...

Abstract: There are two main enteral feeding strategies—namely nasogastric (NG) tube feeding and percutaneous gastrostomy—used to improve the nutritional status of patients with head and neck cancer ...

Nasogastric feeding tubes are fine bore tubes placed through the nasal cavity into the stomach and ... safety events to support learning and improvement is fundamental to improving patient safety ...